Bio
After 40+ years as a professional musician, I have acquired a list of hundreds of songs, encompassing a Wide variety of genres and artists. This enables me to customize my set list according to the demographic and accommodate most requests. This variety has been very instrumental to my success in pleasing crowds (and venue owners/managers)
My Playlist varies nightly, according to the venue, type of function, crowd demographics, energy of the room and requests from:
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Folk / Soft Rock
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Classic Rock
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Country, Old and New
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70s, 80s, 90s
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Motown
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Buffet
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Sinatra and Buble'
Besides my wide variety, quality guitar and vocals, I also pride myself on keeping the volume appropriate. I look around to make sure people are able to talk without leaning in and/or raising their voices at each other. I periodically ask the front tables if the volume is ok and make adjustments accordingly.
I can be mellow and tasteful when appropriate, rock it out when needed and know when to be aware and cautious with volume.
I encourage you to reach out to management of the venues listed above for references.
VENUES PLAYED, CURRENT/ RECENT
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MRBL in Bellevue (Wednesdays plus....)
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Walt’s Hitching Post (2 Fridays monthly)
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Sanctuary Social, Villa Hills
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Blind Squirrel, Florence
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Longnecks Wilder (Tuesdays, Summer patio 7 years)
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Barleycorns
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String Town Florence Ky
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Townsend Florence Ky
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Tom’s Papa Dinos Florence
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Brianza Winery
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Hofbrauhaus Newport
I look forward to hearing from you.
Michael
PARTIAL list of ARTISTS and GENRES:
FOLK
- James Taylor, John Prine,
- Buffet, Tyler Childers, America
CLASSIC ROCK
- Stones, Beatles, Bad Co., The Who,
- Bowie, Meat Loaf, Pink Floyd. Seger
- CCR, Turtles, Mellenkamp, Monkeys
HEAVIER ROCK:
- Metallica, Ozzie, Judas Priest, Van Halen,
POP and POP ROCK
- Prince, Backstreet Boys Styx, Journey, - Foreigner, Bon Jovi
GRUNGE / ALTERNATIVE / PUNK
- Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Chili Peppers
- Green Day, Blink 182
OLD SCHOOL COUNTRY
- Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Willie, Waylon, Elvis, Hank Jr
POP COUNTRY
- Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs
- Zach Bryan, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith
- Garth, Dwight Yoakum
CROONERS
- Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin
- Michael Buble’, Ed Sheeran
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John Mayer, Ed Sheeran
MOTOWN
- Marvin Gaye, Smoky Robinson
- Stevie Wonder, Otis Reading